"You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'."

-- Max Brooks

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. Â In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody”
“The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.”
“The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.38, Princeton University Press
“Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.”
“I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.”
“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”
“Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory.”
“In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.”

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